Marsilio Ficino: Manner

Marsilio Ficino was Italian philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on manner.
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“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”

Marsilio Ficino

Source: The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3

“The rational soul in a certain manner possesses the excellence of infinity and eternity. If this were not the case, it would never characteristically incline toward the infinite. Undoubtedly this is the reason that there are none among men who live contentedly on earth and are satisfied with merely temporal possessions.”

Marsilio Ficino

Source: Five Questions Concerning the Mind (1495), p. 202

“If someone asks us which of these is more perfect, intellect or sense, the intelligible or the sensible, we shall promise to answer promptly, if he will first give us an answer to the following question. You know, my inquiring friend, that there is some power in you which has a notion of each of these things—a notion, I say, of intellect itself and of sense, of the intelligible and the sensible. This is evident, for the same power which compares these to each other must at that time in a certain manner see both. Tell me, then, whether a power of this kind belongs to intellect or sense? … Sense, as you yourself have shown, can perceive neither itself nor intellect and the objects of intellect; whereas intellect knows both. … Therefore, intellect is not only more perfect than sense but is also, after perfection itself, in the highest degree perfect.”

Marsilio Ficino

Source: Five Questions Concerning the Mind (1495), pp. 203-204